I’m still going to stick around here just to amuse myself.. 🙂 I’m sick of all this smartglass, kinect, dynamic cheeve, and hiding apps behind the gold paywall bs. MS is just very anti consumer all around.

I know right, but this is actually very smart as it will at least put the break on selling games for completionists as they will have to come back to the games they thought they completed. No more easy 1000 games.

It’s actually very stupid but I would expect morons such as yourself to bend over for MS on more than one occasion. ANYONE who thinks that’s a bright idea has the IQ and personality of a roof shingle. You blind MS supporters…. lol.

okay i will accept your opinion but come on. microsoft i agree blew it big time back at the reveal and at e3. but now they are making better decisions. indie policies, region locking, drm policies.
i can get your upset but to say you wont use a microsoft product anymore is an exaggeration dont you think?

You have got to be the most inept individual on here if you can’t see everything that is wrong with that. This is just ANOTHER PRIME EXAMPLE OF MS PUSHING WHATEVER THEY WANT ON TO YOU and you fools take it bent over. Sorry you can have your controlling achievements. I wont be hassled with it.

Breaking on Eurogamer, the PS4 has some very poor memory management. Only 5GB will be available to games on it as well. 4.5GB is only guaranteed with about 512MB of flexible memory. The other 3GB are used by the sharing features of the OS, like the DVR. Just pathetic!

Considering the Xbox One runs an entire other OS and apps for multitasking, it truly is. But like others have been saying here before, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Xbox One was a bit more flexible with these memory requirements in the long run.

XBOX ONE has a DVR too, correct.
However Xbox One does not take such a wide overhead for features. The Xbox One runs 2 operating systems with another hypervisor for extensive multitasking. At least we know with the Xbox One where that memory gap is being put in use.
With the PS4 you are now basically buying 3.5 GBs of expensive GDDR5 memory and not knowing what it is for.

Ah actually it does. 5 minutes of gameplay on its own. Plus you can command the kinect to record. For 30 seconds.
Also I would like to say its been proven that the ps4 is hdmi only. Sony confirmed it. There was an accident in naming the inputs it seems

Of course his game is coming to Xbox One. Sony just brought a timed exclusive. Go look it up on Wikipedia. In regards to the memory situation: it looks like the Xbox One will have a faster memory system than the PS4 as well.

That depends if GDDR5 will still be better. We know that DDR3 is better for smaller chunks of data with lower latency and combined with the eSRAM and data movers actually allows for significantly greater bandwith than the PS4’s implementation. I think we will need a benchmark suite to actually prove it all, but until then the notion of the PS4’s implementation being better is kind of hogwash.

We would like to clear up a misunderstanding regarding our “direct” and “flexible” memory systems. The article states that “flexible” memory is borrowed from the OS, and must be returned when requested – that’s not actually the case.

The actual true distinction is that:

“Direct Memory” is memory allocated under the traditional video game model, so the game controls all aspects of its allocation
“Flexible Memory” is memory managed by the PS4 OS on the game’s behalf, and allows games to use some very nice FreeBSD virtual memory functionality. However this memory is 100 per cent the game’s memory, and is never used by the OS, and as it is the game’s memory it should be easy for every developer to use it.
We have no comment to make on the amount of memory reserved by the system or what it is used for.

Based on this information, plus the new source coming forward to explain the properties of flexible memory, our take on this right now is that there is 4.5GB of conventional RAM available to developers, along with the OS-controlled flexible memory Sony describes, in addition to that.

We understand that this is a 1GB virtual address space, split into two areas – 512MB of on-chip RAM is used (the physical area) and another 512MB is “paged”, perhaps like a Windows swap file. But to be clear, of the 8GB of GDDR5 on PS4, our contention is that 5GB of it is available to developers.

The good news is that the amount is static and not dictated by OS functions as we stated in our original post, making it a lot easier for developers to work with.

I wanted to say this before bed.Don’t buy a console because of the popularity its gaining.buy one for your preferences. If you spend most of your time playing online games Xbox 1 is for you. Microsoft had proven they the better online experience.but if your more of a single player person who enjoys a story driven game ps4 is for you. All of these specs mean nothing when it come to the consumer experience. Stick with your preferences and you all way make the right choice

I do agree with this however.. XBL has always been ahead of PSN. I’ll always give MS their dues for that at least. I’ve been boosting Uncharted 2 online for the past few weeks and I can’t begin to tell you how much of a chore that is without party chat. Instead we use the text chatroom to communicate with both parties of 5 to boost.

But then again, MS has a far better OS and system software too. In the end though, I’m still not buying an xbox one. Maybe I can borrow one just to play that Quantum game and DR3.. I’ll see.

Its not all of us. What ever happens there will be fanboys on both sides hating on each other.
Plus why give a damn about downvotes. What ever anyone says there is bound to be down votes on that comment.

Not you roozbeh, you’re a good guy and a level headed fair minded gamer. I honestly don’t care about the downvotes to be be honest with you as it’s just people hating on me for slandering MS before.

I’m here because I still like to follow the happenings in the Xbox world despite the fact I’m picking up a PS4 first. I was also going to sell my xbl account with hundreds of games to a guy on ebay for nearly $400 bucks but I decided against it just in case I decide to get an Xbox one down the line and want to continue building my profile.

I won’t be flaming or trolling anymore however.. You have my word on that! 🙂

/Edit: 1 second after I posted this I already got 1 downvote! You see what I mean? Haha, I won’t let it get to me though.

Me too. But that’s what these indies get for being so arrogant I guess and Marcus Beer is right to throw it out there albeit at a tone I disapprove. These indies all think they are god or something after only having released one, yes ONE, game. The same for Jonathan Blow and even more so for Brian Provinciano.
I don’t think they should leave the industry, which Phil Fish is now doing, but I do think they should come to their senses with their trash talking and learn some humility. MS is creating a really big thing here and all they can do is criticize when most were supported by MS to begin with.
If there’s one thing MS likes it’s developers using their tools to create great things. Anybody who’s ever visited their campus knows this.

to be fair not all the indies were like blow and fish. almost all were happy and were willing to release on xbox.
to be fair we all kinda lose out here. the childishness of fish and beer made us all lose a potentially good game.

I guess you never have seen the indy game movie have you? His attitude towards MS is 100% completely justifiable. You couldn’t even find those XBL arcade games because of the convoluted dashboard interface.

you know his attitude now is not justifiable at all. this isnt a stupid flame war. this idiot wants to leave the gaming industry as a whole. this isnt him supporting or hating anyone. this is phil fish saying he doesnt want to make a game for anyone.

Really? Because I remember Fez being on the dashboard homepage for the longest time.
The one guy from Team Meat was freaking out because the game didn’t show up until the afternoon. The afternoon. He started pulling out and eating his hair! Documentaries are edited to make it seem more dramatic.

All I’m saying is.. did you see the Indy game move itself? It’s on Netflix if you haven’t. I remember how new the NXE was and how it made finding things so difficult in comparison to the blades? That’s basically what Phil complaining about…. well that and the fact that MS didn’t actually release it the arcade wed that they promised him.

Definitely check out netflix and look for it. That film was a real eye opener IMO. 🙂

Yes, that’s what I was talking about. It was edited to make it seem more dire. Documentaries do that. The reality was that both Super Meat Boy and Fez were featured on the home page and got a lot of dashboard ads for months afterwards.
Also note how the documentary neglected to say that Fez was supposed to be a Summer of Arcade title but Phil Fish missed that deadline. One of many, many deadlines he missed

Why is it strange? Would make more sense for it to be September’s game as an anniversary from its release. It’s not like they said it was one of the first games for this promotion.
And so glad that DR2 is going to be free, finally something I didn’t already own. Though, I never even bothered to finish Case Zero.

They did buy Rareware way back when, so you never know. The Atlus auction is still happening I’m pretty sure. I know its just wishful thinking, but MS could pretty easily outbid almost anyone else that would be interested. And they could still allow Atlus to make portable games, so those series wouldn’t be completely dead. I love their relationship with Cave so far and this would be a great way to take on Japan.

A game being Japanese seems to have little to do with the platform it gets released on. As an example, the 360 has all these VERY Japanese SHMUPs that the ps3 simply lacks, even though it’s a very popular genre in Japan.

The 360 had a few exclusives that went multiplatform later (Tales of Vesperia is a good example), and on the ps3 they are also pretty rare (though admittedly, there are some really good titles, I bought a ps3 just for the disgaea series). It seems that the publishers realise that when releasing a jrpg in the West (which has a limited audience to begin with), it’s a bad idea to slice your market in half by releasing only on 1 platform.

It’s good to see NVidia has finally demonstrated that realtime Cloud powered lighting models, what I was talking about some time ago, are becoming a reality even for the current internet.
Now MS can show the power of Azure over that of what NVidia uses.

Great find. I just read about this this morning. nvidia has credibility too. Us tech smart people have gotta keep educating. Masses of ignorant people have been spewing madness lol. I’m excited for cheap dedicated servers via Azure! That’s sweet!

No son, it’s you who doesn’t understand and are unable to see the lies and deception that took place right before your very eyes since the announcement of the DRM to it’s reversal. Then again, I’m sure you aren’t very perceptive and most likely inept.

And I’ve read countless articles on the net that say it’s nonsense. Also you don’t speak for everyone on this blog. Regardless, you know I’m a PS gamer now for the most part and you know I have a lot of discontent for MS. However I did decide to keep my 360 because I have too much invested in it. Whether or not I eventually get the Xbox One depends on what I see from MS in the next 4 years.

If PSN hasn’t improved to the level of Xbox Live with the PS4 or if I still deem the dual shock 4 as a horrible controller for first person shooters, I might compromise and come back to the one. As of this point though.. It’s not very likely.

As I said before, I’m here because I still like to keep up with what’s going on in the Xbox world regardless of the fact I’m buying a PS4. In the meantime, I won’t be trolling anymore..

Just please don’t confuse me for trolling just because I disagree with the many things MS are doing. I’m going to speak my mind either way, I just will refrain from flaming others while doing it. Don’t worry, I’ll be good.

Jason = Guest, Jason voorhees makes dubble accounts like of computer technican to say i’m a PS4 fanboy, Well well how he knows it? He hates me downvote me comments have extra account like Death Dealer, Jason Voorhees is here the biggest troll. Sure, and you see later downvotes here.

I’m not a fanboy, i love the xbox one and PS4. But i know… the biggest troll is the comment under me….

Says the guy who’s facebook page is one PlayStation loveletter and who’s first comment on Disqus is a threat towards MS because he’s a Sony fan. Yeah, nice try kid. I’m not Jason Voorhees, it’s what I’ve been telling you for a long time and you still don’t get it. We are both Dutch and friends, that’s it.
Guest is a bug in Disqus where someone deletes his account, but I’m sure you don’t know anything about that as you delete your spiteful comments on GameKings all the time and you get removed from there faster than anything after everyone downvotes you.
It’s also very comforting to know that you are the one upvoting trolls all over the internet, including here and your previous comments match troll ones on here exactly. Don’t bother deleting the upvotes or posts as I took pictures, just like you do to threaten everyone that disagrees with you.

From a long time listener.. after a long hiatus, I think most of your listeners would rather hear about what games you have been playing than your travels overseas. I have been listening for 30 minutes now, and this is far too long when it’s more than half of the podcast. This is a video game and tech podcast, not international travels.

Missing the links to the travel power strip, also the engineer who tested the power supplies. Also, e, speed it up! you’re still the slowest-speaking member of the show, and you repeat portions of your stories after Major interrupts you (in order to try and speed you up). Such as, “I don’t have that problem with my 3DS” Major – “Why not?” e – “Well i don’t have that problem with my 3DS, because blah blah USB cord.” Zzzzzzzzzzzz